Funeral of singer Liam Payne has taken place

Cheryl Tweedy and members of One Direction were among the friends and family paying their final respects to Liam Payne at his funeral.

Singers Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson reunited alongside other mourners at the private funeral at St Mary's Church in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, to remember Payne.

He died aged 31 on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.

Girls Aloud star Tweedy, who was in a relationship with Payne between 2016 and 2018 and is the mother of their seven-year-old son Bear, also attended the service.

Music mogul Simon Cowell attended with his fiancée, Lauren Silverman.

Styles arrived alongside TV star James Corden, while Horan attended alongside his girlfriend Amelia Woolley. Malik arrived to the church shortly after Tomlinson.

Other mourners included Payne's girlfriend, US influencer Kate Cassidy, and Girls Aloud singers Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh, who supported their bandmate Tweedy by attending the service.

Prior to the funeral starting, dozens of locals and fans gathered to pay their final respects to Payne, who died on 16 October.

Fans around the world held vigils in his memory following his death, while a shrine to the late star was created in his hometown of Wolverhampton.

He died of multiple traumas and "internal and external haemorrhage", a post-mortem examination report said.

An investigation has been launched into his death by prosecutors, and three people have been charged in connection with the incident.

Payne rose to fame alongside Styles, Tomlinson, Malik, and Horan when Simon Cowell put them together to form One Direction on ITV talent show The X Factor in 2010.

He first auditioned in 2008 when he was 14, singing Frank Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon, with judge Cowell telling him to return to the talent show two years later.

In 2010, he impressed the judges with a rendition of Michael Bublé's Cry Me a River before being put with four other solo hopefuls at the boot camp stage of the competition – the group that later became One Direction.

Payne went on to launch a successful solo career, releasing his debut solo album LP1 in December 2019, which included the songs Polaroid and Strip That Down featuring Quavo.

One of his most well-known songs, For You, was a collaboration between him and singer Rita Ora for the film Fifty Shades Freed.

Source: Press Association